Quotes with old-world

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  • Lao-Tzu By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Thomas Carlyle By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    Source: As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ban Ki-moon By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • George Burns By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Henry Vaughan Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Blaise Pascal Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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  • Susan Sontag Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Buddha Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
    Source: Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ann Druyan Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
    Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. II, The Issue of Cartels, p. 21
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Cockburn Catching the light and falling into dark
    And the world fades out like an overheard remark...
    In the falling dark
    Source: In The Falling Dark (1976) Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John M
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Change your thoughts and you change your world.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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